• Natural Product Sciences
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.138-141
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• 1999

The effects of Eurycoma longifolia Jack were studied in maintaining mating behavior of sexually experienced castrated male rats after dosing them with 500 mg/kg daily of E. longifolia Jack for 10 days prior to test and later continued for two weeks where the rats were then castrated. The similar dosage was then continued for 12 weeks post-castration. However, $400\;{\mu}g/day$ of testosterone was administered subcutaneously on the day of castration and lasted for 6 weeks post-castration but later raised to $800\;{\mu}g/day$ until 12 week post-castration. Tests were conducted weekly from 2-6 weeks and 8-12 weeks post-castration. Results showed that all the experimental male rats exhibited mating behavior before castration. Further results also indicated that E. longifolia Jack successfully maintained mating behavior but less than precastration level from 2-6 weeks and later increased from 8-12 weeks post-castration. Similarly, $400\;{\mu}g/day$ of testosterone was effective in maintaining mating behavior from 2-6 weeks post-castration. However, $800\;{\mu}g/day$ of testosterone managed to return the male rats to the precastration level with all male rats exhibited mating behavior from 8-12 weeks post-castration. Further results also indicated that testosterone significantly increased the penis weights (p < 0.05) as compared to the E. longifolia Jack. In conclusion, this study shows that E. longifolia Jack continued to maintain mating behavior of sexually experienced castrated male rats, giving further evidence of the folkuse of this plant as aphrodisiac.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.49-53
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• 2006

The fiddler crab, Uca lactea, which lives on intertidal mudflats in Korea, exhibits both burrow mating and surface mating. We observed 17 cases of surface mating that occurred on Ganghwa Island, South Korea. Most surface-mating males did not build semidomes, structures that attract searching females for burrow mating. Based on the conclusion of a previous study that semidome building is condition-dependent, we suggest that food availability may influence the mating tactic of this species. In addition, there was a strong correlation between the carapace size of both sexes that surface-mated, which suggests that males use body size of females as a mating cue.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.337-342
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• 2012

Information about the mating behaviors of an endangered species is critical for the understanding of the natural history of the species as well as in situ and ex situ breeding programs designed to rehabilitate field populations. We describe the mating behaviors of the Mongolian racerunner (Eremias argus), an endangered species in South Korea. The mating of this species consists of precopulatory, copulatory, and postcopulatory stages and is composed of 12 different mating behaviors. During the postcopulatory stage, other males or females not involved in mating show more interference behaviors than during the precopulatory and copulatory stages. The male E. argus has an extraordinarily long postcopulatory bite, which may function as a type of mate-guarding behavior. This study is the first report on the mating behavior of a South Korean reptile.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.195-200
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• 2016

This study examines the wear behavior of mild steel pins mated against alloyed tool steel discs in a pin-on-disc type sliding test machine and provides specific clarification regarding the effects of disc hardness on the wear behavior of a mating mild steel pin. The analysis confirms these effects through the observation of differences in the wear rates of the mild steel pins at low sliding speed ranges. These differences occur even though the hardness of the mating disc does not affect the wear characteristic curve patterns for the sliding speeds, regardless of the wear regime. In the running-in wear regime, increasing the hardness of the mating disc results in a decrease in the wear rates of the mild steel pins at low sliding speed ranges. However, in the steady-state wear region, the wear rate of a pin mated against the 42DISC is greater than the wear rate of a pin mated against the 30DISC, which has a lower hardness value. This means that the tribochemical reactivity of the mating disc, which is based on hardness value, influences the wear behavior of mild steel at low sliding speed ranges. In particular, oxides with higher oxygen contents, such as $Fe_2O_3$ oxides, form predominantly on the worn surface of the 42DISC. On the contrary, the wear behavior of mild steel pins at high sliding speed ranges is nearly unaffected by the hardness of the mating disc.

• 한국발생생물학회지:발생과생식
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.181-187
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• 1997

This study has been conducted to investigate the mating behavior, time sequence of mating and time limit with which female can fulfill spawning and brooding after pre-spawning molting in the giant fresh-water prawn, macrobrachium rosenbergii reared in the laboratory. the results obtained were summarized as follows. Mating happened spontaneously as the following sequences: courting gesture, seizure of female by male, mounting, turning of female, copulation. The entire mating lated approximately seven minutes. The endopodite of 2nd pleopod of male bore the appendix masculins whcih are male's secondary sex characteristic. cinciulli was formed at the distal portion of appendix interna which are on the upper portion of appendix masculins and helped stabilizing the connection of each side of 2nd pleopod during mating. After the connection of each side of 2nd plepod was fixed on the posterior portion of the thoracic sternum in female, a gelatinous spermatophore that emitted at the basipodite of 5th pereiopod during courting gesture was deposited on the ventral groove of 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th pereiopod. time limit which female can fulfill copulation and brooding was from 3 hours to 15 hours after pre-spawning molting.

• 환경생물
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.88-92
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 한국산 대륙유혈목이 Hebius vibakari의 집단 번식 사례를 보고하고자 한다. 2009년 5월 20일 전라남도 진도군 맹골도리에 위치한 맹골도에서 대륙유혈목이의 집단 번식이 관찰되었다. 맹골도 섬 능선 위에 형성된 바위지대(고도 107 m)에서 번식이 관찰되었다. 대륙유혈목이 암컷 6개체와 수컷 5개체는 번식 행동 중 하나인 교미공(mating ball)을 형성하고 있었다. 그 중 2 쌍은 뱀류에서 관찰되는 짝짓기 행동인 "꼬리 뒤엉킴(tail wrestling)" 중이었다. 집단 번식이 관찰된 당시의 기온과 습도는 각각 $25.7^{\circ}C$와 59%였다. 본 연구의 결과는 희귀 파충류인 대륙유혈목이의 집단 번식을 국내 최초로 보고한 사례이다.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제7권
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• pp.15-20
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• 1969

흰불나방을 재료로 곤충의 교미습성중 우화시간, 교미시간, 1회교미에 소요되는 시간 및 나방의 우화후일령이 교미율에 미치는 영향등을 밝히기 위하여 실내시험한 바 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1 흰불나방은 오후 3시부터 우화가 시작되어 오후 12시경에 끝나며 우화최성시각은 오후 7-8시 사이었다. 이때 암컷은 $42.1\%$ 숫컷은 $41.5\%$ 우화하였다. 2) 흰불나방은 오전 5-6시 사이에 교미하여 그 외 다른 시간에는 교미하지 않는다. 1회 교미시간은 최단이 7시간, 최장이 17시간이며 그 평균은 12시간이었다. 3) 흰불나방은 2회까지 교미할 수 있으며 1회 교미하는 것이 대부분이다. 실내시험결과 암컷은 1회 교미가$66.0\%$, 2회 교미가 $4.1\%$, 미교미가 $29.9\$, 이었으며 숫컷은 1회 교미가 $66.0\%$, 2회 교미가 $5.4\%$, 미교미가 $28.6\%$이었다. 야외에서 채집된 암컷의 교미는 1회가 $6.1\%$, 2회가 $15.1\%$, 미교미가$22.4\%$로서 야외의 것이 실내의 것에 비하여 2회교미하는 율이 높았다. 4) 흰불나방은 우화후 4일까지 교미한다. 우화된지 6-15시간후부터 교미하는데 이때에 $72\%$의 높은 교미율을 보이지만 4일에는 $9.1\%$의 낮은 교미율을 보인다. 5일 이후 교미하는 것을 관찰할 수 없었다. 자웅보다 동일 일령인 것 끼리 교미하며 일령이 다른 것과는 거의 교미하지 않는다.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.163-168
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• 2004

광대노린재(P lewisi)의 실내 계대사육법을 확립하기 위해 먼저 실내에서의 생식행동을 구명하였다. 고온장일조건($25^{\circ}C$, 16Lㆍ8D)의 사육실에서 사육하면서 교미행동과 다중교미가 산란성에 미치는 영향에 대해 조사하였는데 광대노린재 성충의 교미는 성충 일령별로 9일째부터 시작되어 17일 이후는 교미율이 증가(60% 이상)하여 성충 21일째 84.5%로 피크를 이루였다. 광대노린재의 교미행동과정은 탐색배회, 접근, 더듬이접촉, 올라타기, 복부말단접근, 교미(끝에 끝 자세)를 취하는 것으로 조사되었다. 수컷은 교미행동 전 과정에서 능동적이었으며 또한 암컷에게 올라타기를 하기 전까지 마찰음을 내였으나 대부분의 암컷은 교미에 수동적이었다. 교미가 이루어지는 시간은 조명 후 1시간 내에 69% ,2시간 8% ,3시간 6% ,4시간 16% ,5시간 1%로 거의 4시간 내에는 교미가 이루어지는 것으로 관찰되었다. 암컷의 재교미는 첫 교미 후7일 동안 20% 정도 이루어졌으나 수컷의 재교미율은 암컷보다 월등히 높았다. 한편 암컷은 1회 교미 후 시간이 경과함에 따라 산란된 알의 부화율이 감소하였으나 재교미를 함으로서 산란된 알의 부화율이 향상되었고 수컷은 교미횟수가 증가할수록 산란된 알의 부화율이 감소하였다.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.131-133
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• 2023

Polyphylla laticollis manchurica Semenov, 1900, is a critically endangered species in the Republic of Korea and is strictly protected as a Class I endangered species. Although this beetle species faces a threat of extinction, its ecological understanding is limited. Previous studies conducted on this species in the Republic of Korea have focused only on its taxonomy and mitochondrial genome sequences. Herein, we report an observation of the mating of adults of P. l. manchurica in June 2021, during an ongoing study on Korean beetles. This incidence was reported around light sources from newly constructed townhouses near Geumgang River. Larval habitats were observed along the river between April 2022 and March 2023. Particularly, two larvae were found inside the plant debris, and three were found under the roots of reeds. This study provides key information on the mating ecology of P. l. manchurica that can assist conservation efforts of this critically endangered species.

• 한국균학회소식:학술대회논문집
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• 한국균학회 2018년도 춘계학술대회 및 임시총회
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• pp.37-37
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• 2018

Mating type of Lentinula edodes is determined by two unlinked genetic loci, A and B. To better understand mating behavior of L. edodes, we investigated variations in mating type genes in129 dikaryotic strains collected from East Asia. Through sequence analysis of A locus, we discovered that hypervariable region spanning N-term of HD2-intergenic region-N-term of HD1 could represent A mating type. Mating and hypervariable region analyses revealed 70 unique A mating types: 27 from 98 cultivated strains, 53 from 31 wild strains, and 10 commonly found. It was also revealed that only a few A mating type alleles such as A1, A4, A5, and A7 were prevalent in cultivated strains. Contrarily, A mating type in wild strains was highly diverse: 23 unique A alleles were discovered in small mountainous area in Korean peninsula, suggesting rapid evolution of A mating type in nature. The B locus was assessed by allelic variations in pheromone (PHB) and pheromone receptor (RCB) pairs which constituted subloci Ba and Bb. Sequence analyses and mating assay revealed 5 alleles of RCB1 with 9 associated PHBs in Ba sublocus and 3 alleles of RCB2 with 5 associated PHBs in Bb sublocus. Each RCB was primarily associated with two PHBs. Each PHB-RCB pair was always discovered as a distinct unit. This allowed us to propose 15 B mating types via combinations of five Ba and three Bb subloci. Further investigation on 129 strains confirmed that the B locus, unlike the A locus, was indeed restricted to 15 mating types. Thus, the total number of mating types became 1,050 in L. edodes through a combination of 70 A and 15 B. This number will further increase because of rapid diversification of A mating type. Our findings provide a comprehensive and practical knowledge on mating behaviors of L. edodes.